B 4.0
Inspection and maintenance
Scheduled structural and lighting inspection, guy tension and plumb, and the photo-documented report with a severity-coded punch list that an owner can act on.
AGL0–300′
An inspection report is the only product in this trade that is purely a document, which makes it the one where quality is easiest to fake and easiest to check.
A bad report is a checklist with ticks on it and four photographs taken from the ground. It tells an owner nothing they can act on and gives them no way to tell whether the crew actually climbed. A good one is photographed against the member it describes, codes each finding by severity, and separates “this needs attention this year” from “this needs attention before the next storm season”.
The second kind is what lets somebody who runs a hundred structures prioritise a portfolio rather than react to whichever site called loudest. That is the entire value of the scope, and it is why we describe the report format in detail before anyone asks.
Define these before a proposal
- Inspection type
- Structural, lighting, guy tension, or a full condition assessment. They are separately scoped and separately priced.
- Interval
- Annual, three-yearly, post-event, or to whatever schedule the governing standard and your own programme require for that structure class.
- Structure data
- Drawings, previous reports and the current appurtenance list, so a finding can be compared against last time rather than recorded in isolation.
- Report format
- How your asset management process wants it: severity coding, photo naming, and submission format.
- Punch list handling
- Whether findings are quoted for remediation with the report or reported and closed out separately.
What you receive
Photo-documented inspection report with a severity-coded punch list
Submitted in the format your QA process expects, agreed at proposal stage rather than discovered at submission. See the close-out package.
B 4.1 The work
What the scope contains
Planning durations for one structure or one site, with the crew type each line assumes. Crew types are priced on the rates page.
| Work | Crew | Typical duration |
|---|---|---|
| Structural inspectionClimb, photo-documented, severity-coded | C2 | 1 day |
| Lighting inspection and repairLamps, photocell, monitoring, alarm path | C2 | 0.5–1 day |
| Guy tension and plumbMeasured and recorded against design | C2 | 1 day |
| Full condition assessmentStructure, lighting, grounding, compound | C2 | 1–2 days |
| Antenna and line mappingWhat is actually installed, verified | C2 | 0.5–1 day |
| Corrosion and coating surveyCoastal sites especially | C2 | 1 day |
Rates are USD, exclude engineering, permitting, materials, crane and specialist equipment hire, travel outside the base market and any applicable tax, and are planning ranges for scoping a project rather than an offer or a quotation. Reviewed September 2026. Durations are per structure or per site and exclude mobilisation, weather days and any engineering or permitting lead time. A figure for your site list comes from a written proposal against a defined scope of work. See the disclaimer.
Questions Inspection and maintenance
Questions about this scope
Specific to this scope. The general ones — proposals, insurance, weather, close-out, billing — are on the FAQ page.
How often should a structure be inspected?
It depends on the structure class and on your own programme. Industry standards for steel antenna towers set maintenance and inspection intervals by structure type — guyed structures are inspected more often than self-support — and owners frequently run a tighter interval than the minimum. In a coastal or hurricane-exposed market, annual is common, and post-event inspection is a separate trigger regardless of when the last scheduled one happened.
What does severity coding mean in the report?
Each finding is coded by urgency rather than listed flat, so a portfolio can be triaged. In practice that separates conditions needing attention before the next storm season, conditions to plan into the next budget cycle, and observations that are worth recording so the next inspection can see whether they have moved. A report without that coding hands the owner a pile rather than a plan.
Do you quote the repairs you find?
If you want us to, and it is worth saying which you prefer at proposal stage. Some owners want findings priced with the report so they can approve remediation in one cycle. Others deliberately want the inspection independent of whoever might fix it. Both are reasonable and we will work either way.
Is lighting inspection separate from structural?
It is separately scoped, though it is nearly always done on the same visit because mobilisation is the expensive part. Obstruction lighting has its own compliance dimension: a lamp out is a reportable condition with notification obligations, not simply a maintenance item, which is why it is tracked on its own line.
B 0.0 The other scopes
The rest of the elevation
- AGL60–300′
Antenna & Line Systems
Mount steel, antenna and line installation, hoisting, grounding and the sweep and PIM testing that proves the system before the crew leaves.
- AGL0–300′
Structural Modification
Leg, diagonal and foundation reinforcement carried out to a structural engineer's drawings, so a structure can carry a loading it was not built for.
- AGL0–300′
Tower Construction
New self-support, monopole and guyed structures, erected to an engineered rigging plan and handed over plumb, tensioned and documented.
- AGLGrade
Site Power & HVAC
Standby generators, automatic transfer switches, fuel systems and shelter HVAC — the systems at the base that decide whether the site stays on air.
Send the site list
Telephone with the structures, what has to happen at each one, and the date it has to be finished. We will tell you the crew, the days, what has to be engineered first, and what the close-out package will contain.
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